QTrade Teas and Botanicals Bans All Experiments on Animals After PETA Push

In another leap toward stopping cruelty to animals abused in laboratories, QTrade Teas and Botanicals—the largest organic tea importer in North America—has agreed to ban all experiments on animals following talks with PETA. PETA discovered that the company donated to a test in which experimenters used genetically modified mice born with a peanut allergy, force-fed them a peanut extract and toxin, and then bled them from their faces. We alerted QTrade to this archaic experiment, and after meeting with our scientists, the company adopted a new animal testing policy, stating that it will not “conduct, fund, or commission testing on mice or other animals.”